On 23 October 2025, war correspondent Aliona Hramova (Hubanova) and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin, both from TV channel Freedom (a structure of the Ukrainian state-owned media corporation Inomovlennya), were killed when a Russian Lancet-type drone struck a service station where their vehicle was parked. The strike, which occurred in the city of Kramatorsk, also injured another crew member, correspondent Oleksandr Kolychev, who sustained shrapnel wounds and a broken leg (see separate alert).
According to the head of the Donetsk Military Administration, the two journalists had been reporting on the aftermath of a prior Russian attack before they themselves became a target. “From the first days of the full-scale invasion, they were covering the most dangerous points in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts,” the regional military administration head, Vadym Filashkin, said in a post on Facebook.
The incident has been documented by Ukrainian authorities as a criminal investigation under Part 2, Article 438 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code (war crimes).